Founded in 1998, California Olive Ranch® is America’s largest grower and processor of olive oil — doing with California grown extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) what California wines did in the 1970’s in the wine industry.
A privately held company, our vision is to be the global leader in the production of EVOO using a unique and innovative planting, harvesting and milling process that produces the freshest, most flavorful EVOO available on the market.
Headquartered in Oroville, CA near the Sierra Nevada foothills, California Olive Ranch pioneered a relatively new, innovative farming method from Spain called "Super High Density Planting.” Using this system, over a million Spanish and Greek varietal olive trees grow in hedge rows 570-670 trees per acre vs. traditional plantings of 100-150 trees per acre.
High speed harvesting machines are used to rapidly pick the fruit in minutes what traditionally takes hours or days to do by hand then deliver it to our state-of-the art milling facilities. California Olive Ranch
operates two state of the art milling facilities. The first is
located on 733 acres in Oroville, CA. The second is located on 1,700
acres in Artois, CA. We also operate a large orchard which is located on 2,200
acres in Corning, CA. All of our facilities are designed to
produce an abundant supply of fresh, flavorful, aromatic EVOO. We also
process fruit for more than 4,000 additional contracted acres.
California Olive Ranch’s 100% California grown EVOOs continually win medals in international competitions, including Best of Class honors, against some of the world’s best oils at such renowned competitions as the LA County Fair and International Olive Oil Competition.
Find out more about our products and enjoy a healthy and fresh taste of California.
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